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Architecture and Literature

This guide will offer some resources on the intersection of architecture and literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Puente, Karina. "Ipazia," 2018, in Niall Walsh, "Intricate Illustrations of Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'": ArchDaily. Accessed May 6, 2020. www.archdaily.com/906742/intricate-illustrations-of-italo-calvinos-invisible-cities

"Great architects build structures that can make us feel enclosed, liberated or suspended. They lead us through space, make us slow down, speed up or stop to contemplate. Great writers, in devising their literary structures, do exactly the same."

-Matteo Pericoli

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